Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

Oct. 01, 2009Australia117 Min.PG
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Synopsis

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Mao’s Last Dancer
Original title Mao's Last Dancer
IMDb Rating 7.3 7,210 votes
TMDb Rating 6.8 53 votes

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Cast

Chi Cao isLi Cunxin - adult
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo isLi Cunxin - teenage
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang isLi Cunxin - boy
Li Cunxin - boy
Bruce Greenwood isBen Stevenson
Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull isElizabeth Mackey
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan isCharles Foster
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson isUS Federal Judge
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis isMary McKendry
Mary McKendry

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